On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:20:26 -0500, sk8r-365 wrote:

> Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard ray typed:
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:27:56 +0000, pat_mc wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, All -
>>>
>>> I am currently in the process of setting up a Kubunto installation on
>>> my laptop. For various reasons, I need to set the locale on that
>>> machine to de_DE ISO_8859-1.
> <snip>
>>> I only obtain a handful of UTF8-based locales. It appears there is no
>>> support for the desired encoding.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I can change to that encoding?
>>>
> <snip>
>>
>> alt.os.linux.ubuntu
>
> Dude, that's cold. Funny but cold.
>
> pat_mc, you may be needing to do 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales'. But
> first read about it and see if that is what you need: man
> dpkg-reconfigure
>
> To see your locales choices try:
> apt-cache search <language of your choice> | less

Figured he'd stand a better chance of getting a definitive answer there
than here, that's all.